What $$$ buys: A Corp Agenda. Ex 1:Walmart-Cheap Prison Labor, Cheap Foreign Goods, Subsidized Labor
Costs, favorable Corporate Taxes, and probably lots more!
The American Taxpayer pays part of Walmart's labor costs because their employees qualify for all types of government benefits due to their low wages.
WALMART AND PRISON LABOR
The supplier pledge for America’s largest retailer states: “Forced or prison labor will not be tolerated by Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart will not accept products from Vendor Partners who utilize in any manner forced labor or prison labor in the manufacture or in their contracting, subcontracting or other relationships for the manufacture of their products.”
However, the company has become a retailing behemoth in the United States and abroad by carefully watching its bottom line and squeezing every ounce of profit out of each component in its supply chain. Recent developments, which include reports concerning the use of prison labor and alleged abuses in labor practices by its suppliers, have called into question whether Wal-Mart is the good corporate citizen it claims to be.
One area in which Wal-Mart has profited through the use of prison labor is in “demanufacturing.” That term refers to the disposal of millions of dollars’ worth of “customer returns, buy-backs, over-stocks, shelf-pulls, scratch-and-dent, and excess inventories” that all large retailers must contend with, according to Al Norman, the founder of Sprawl Busters. What separates Wal-Mart from other retailers is its use of what amounts to taxpayer-subsidized prison labor in the demanufacturing process.
Of course, Wal-Mart is not directly involved in that process. Rather, it relies on sub-contractors; the company just reaps the bottom-line benefits. Suppliers and sub-contractors, eager to expand their sales and increase their profits, are only too willing to contract with Wal-Mart. Before long, they are virtual “captives” of the mammoth retailer, dependent on their contracts with the company for their economic survival and willing to cut corners to preserve their profit margins.
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2014/sep/19/prison-labor-boosts-wal-marts-profits-despite-pledge/
Alice Walmart isn't stupid. She knows what she is buying.
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